Senior Director, Software Engineering

About the role

Ads is the fastest-growing organization in Walmart, growing ~40% year over year, and is the 2nd largest retail media business in the industry. It operates the flywheel for Walmart’s business. The AdTech engineering team in Chennai is a key part of this organization, building and running the technology that serves advertisers, suppliers and customers at scale.

What you'll do

• Serve as the Site Lead for Ads and Walmart Plus (W+) in Chennai: set the site vision, culture and operating rhythm, attract and retain top talent
• Own functional leadership of Offsite Ads engineering from Chennai, defining the technical strategy, multi-year roadmap and architecture for DSP, SSP
• Lead and scale the Chennai organization (~30 members today) through managers and senior technical leaders; build the leadership pipeline and succession plans
• Drive operational excellence for platforms that serve ads in real time at very high scale – availability, latency, reliability, security, privacy and cost efficiency
• Ensure robust large-scale data processing (batch and streaming) that powers targeting, measurement, attribution and reporting, with strong data quality and governance

What you need

• 18–30 yrs of experience
• Kafka
• Machine learning
• NoSQL
• Spark
• Cassandra
• B.Tech or B.E. or B.Sc or BCA or M.Tech or MCA or M.Sc